I know a few people who have found work using Twitter, mostly through networking and mentioning that they'd love to work for a specific company only to have that company miraculously respond to them. Those individuals are very lucky, but there are a number of services on Twitter that are designed to help you find work using social media, and maybe meet your potential boss at the same time.

Enter Tweetajob, a new Web service where employers and job seekers sign up with their locations to have the service direct message new job postings directly to users. The service takes employers who are willing to use the service to find
talent and job seekers looking for an opportunity and matches them
together based on location. To use the service as a job seeker, all you
have to do is follow Tweetajob on Twitter and register for the service
(completely free).

Once you're signed up and Tweetajob knows the area where you'd like to find work, the service will send you direct messages every time a new job opening is available in your neighborhood. Tweetajob even encourages you to turn on mobile phone alerts so you'll be notified on your phone as soon as there's a relevant job that you can apply to.

If you're an employer, Tweetajob charges at most $5 per tweet to get the word out about your job opening. You can even manage those tweets from your account at Tweetajob, and the service offers help crafting a good tweet, discounts if you tweet repetitively, and the ability to post to Twitter through the service without the need for your own Twitter account.

It's becoming more common to use social media and other direct means to find work over traditional job listing sites where you blast your resume to as many potential employers as possible. Tweetajob is just one of the newest services to take advantage of a large Twitter audience looking for work who also like to spend time on Twitter. Top